History Main / ModelCouple

Compare FashionModel (and overlaps when modeling outfits), TheBeautifulElite, ThoseTwoActors, ModelingPoses. Contrast UglyGuyHotWife; HotGuyUglyWife.

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[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', there is a FashionShow for mothers and daughters. Tiffany, of the Fashion Club, hires a model to pretend to be her mother, just so they would look right. The "mother" is black, and the "daughter" is Asian, but what mattered is them looking good together.

* Is done with [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Syaoran and Sakura]] to show their school uniforms, in little shorts narrated by Kero at the end of some episodes, or in promotional artwork.

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[[caption-width-right:285:Similar clothes[[labelnote:**]]one's a [[PrettyInMink white fur jacket]], and other's a silver jacket, but still coordinate[[/labelnote]], similar faces, and even matching smiles. It's not sci-fi, it's just marketing.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:Similar clothes[[labelnote:**]]one's a [[PrettyInMink white fur jacket]], and other's a silver jacket, but still coordinate[[/labelnote]], similar faces, and even matching smiles. It's not sci-fi, it's just marketing.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Similar clothes[[labelnote:**]]one's a [[PrettyInMink white fur jacket]], and other's a silver jacket, but still coordinate[[/labelnote]], similar faces, and even matching smiles. It's not sci-fi, it's just marketing.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:Similar clothes[[note]]one's a [[PrettyInMink white fur jacket]], and other's a silver jacket, but still coordinate[[/note]], similar faces, and even matching smiles. It's not sci-fi, it's just marketing.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[-Similar clothes[[labelnote:*]]one's a [[PrettyInMink white fur jacket]], and other's a silver jacket, but still coordinate[[/labelnote]], similar faces, and even matching smiles. It's not sci-fi, it's just marketing.-] ]]

Compare FashionModel (and overlaps when modeling outfits), TheBeautifulElite, ThoseTwoActors, ModelingPoses.

Contrast UglyGuyHotWife; HotGuyUglyWife.

* At one point in ''ParadiseKiss'', Yukari goes to do a modelling shoot with a guy. Who turns out to be her boyfriend, George. This actually ''really annoys her.''

* In an episode of ''{{Daria}}'', there is a FashionShow for mothers and daughters. Tiffany, of the Fashion Club, hires a model to pretend to be her mother, just so they would look right. The "mother" is black, and the "daughter" is Asian, but what mattered is them looking good together.

* Played With in MadMen, many of the couples that fit this type have their relationships go to seed (Don/Betty, Don/Megan, Roger/Joan, Roger/Jane, Roger/Mona, Joan/Greg, and Pete/Trudy). All shiny, glamorous, movie star perfect looks above a bed of lies, abuse, hatred, manipulation, possesiveness, and anger.

* Lampshaded in ''Theater/{{Wicked}}'', where Galinda and Fiyero sing "You're perfect! ''You're'' perfect! So we're perfect together!" [[spoiler: Later subverted as Fiyero runs off with Elphaba.]]

Compare FashionModel (and overlaps when modeling outfits), TheBeautifulElite, ThoseTwoActors.

* ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'': Lina/Gourry wear their hair long and have giant [[ShouldersOfDoom shoulder guards.]] Zel/Amelia both have flippy hair and beige tunics. The {{Foils}} (with arguable ShipTease) Filia and Xellos go for short gloves and half-cloaks, and while their hair is different, the colors are complimentary.

* ''{{Slayers}}'': Lina/Gourry wear their hair long and have giant [[ShouldersOfDoom shoulder guards.]] Zel/Amelia both have flippy hair and beige tunics. The {{Foils}} (with arguable ShipTease) Filia and Xellos go for short gloves and half-cloaks, and while their hair is different, the colors are complimentary.

Compare TheBeautifulElite, ThoseTwoActors.

If the couple is modeling clothes (usually for a FashionMagazine or ad), as in the pic at right, expect the clothes to complement each other as well, often to the point of CoordinatedClothes. Just that the guy isn't dressing that way because he's being whipped. He's being ''paid''.

If the couple is [[FashionMagazine modeling clothes]], as in the pic at right, expect the clothes to complement each other as well, often to the point of CoordinatedClothes. Just that the guy isn't dressing that way because he's being whipped. He's being ''paid''.

* It's lampshaded in ''[[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]'', when Kell Tainer confesses love to Tyria Sarkin. She tells him he's LovingAShadow, convincing himself that he loves her purely because they'd look good together, and because from an intellectual perspective they'd match too - she has no family, so he both doesn't have to deal with in-laws and can also provide her with his. He only loves the image of her. While Kell's shocked and hurt at first, he does realize that she's right.

Contrast UglyGuyHotWife, HotGuyUglyWife.

[[folder: Film]]
* Every single one of the "Cullen Couples" in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. The film even made the villain couple drop-dead gorgeous.
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[[folder:Mythology]]
* In CelticMythology, Cu Chulainn is an extremely handsome warrior who is married with Emer, who is considered as the most beautiful woman in Ireland. Yes, this trope is OlderThanFeudalism.
** In fact, this appears in just about any old fairy tale; the man and woman who get together at the end will almost always be the most ''handsome'' man and the most ''beautiful'' woman, despite the number of fairy tales in existence meaning there must therefore be thousands of "most handsome/beautiful people" in the world.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Frequent in {{Fashion Magazine}}s and advertising.
* Perhaps most common in those stock photos in wallets and picture frames.
* eHarmony ads are the dictionary example of this. How can a personality matching online service find couples that ''look'' so perfect together? Hmmm...
** Early commericals were especially bad, with both the man and woman having glasses, or red hair, or being Asian...
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* Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy in ''Literature/HarryPotter''.

* SeenItAMillionTimes in {{Fashion Magazine}}s and advertising.